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ROSTA – World Diabetes Day is celebrated every year on November 14th. A date chosen to commemorate the birth of Professor Banting who, together with his student Best, isolated insulin in 1921, changing the history of diabetes sufferers. Today there are around 300,000 people with diabetes in Piedmont, over 4,000,000 in Italy, 537 million in the world, with a continuously growing trend and a prevalence which in Italy stands at around 6.6% and in Piedmont it is slightly higher, around 7.1%. To these numbers must also be added those who have the disease but do not yet know it: in Italy around one million people. In fact, up to six or seven years can pass before the disease manifests itself and this is why prevention, in the case of type 2 diabetes mellitus, is particularly important and effective. World Diabetes Day offers the opportunity to talk about it. This year the theme chosen is “Diabetes and well-being”, to go beyond health and be able to live every day to the fullest.
DIABETES IN ASLTO3
People with diabetes require ongoing care and support to manage their condition and avoid complications. In ASL To3, the Departmental Structure of Endocrine Diseases and Diabetology, directed by Doctor Enrico Pergolizzi, deals with it. The service is divided into the offices of Avigliana, Collegno, Giaveno, Orbassano, Pinerolo, Pomaretto, Rivoli, Susa and Venaria Reale. It currently cares for 35,756 people with diabetes, with a number of specialist services which, from the beginning of the year to date, has been over 30,000, with almost a thousand new diagnoses of type 2 diabetes and 45 of type 1 diabetes. There are 454 pregnant women with gestational diabetes followed in ASL To3, a marked increase compared to the past. Patient management takes place in an integrated manner with the general practitioner. Once stabilized, the person suffering from diabetes is taken care of by his family doctor, who takes care of the continuous surveillance of the disease, with an agreed test plan. Only in case of specific needs, such as a worsening or renewal of temporary therapies, the patient is sent again to the company diabetes service. Thanks to a Telemedicine system active throughout the ASL To3 area, the renewal of treatment plans is also possible remotely. The control tests are transmitted by the doctor through a specific channel directly to the diabetologist, who evaluates the renewal and in turn retransmits it, with the same electronic methods, to the doctor, for prescriptions and subsequent checks; all this avoiding the patient having to go to the clinic and optimizing company resources.
THE APPOINTMENTS OF 2024
The risk assessment test
The awareness initiatives in the ASL To3 area, in which all citizens can freely participate, are organized by the diabetology service in collaboration with the district services, voluntary associations and some municipal administrations.
During the appointments it will be possible to carry out the risk assessment test free of charge, which allows, thanks to a simple and quick questionnaire and the free measurement of blood sugar and blood pressure and without the need to take a blood sample, to identify cases of unknown disease. It will also be possible to receive suggestions and information material on the prevention and correct management of the disease. This is the calendar of events:
GRUGLIASCO: Tuesday 12 November from 9 am to 12.30 pm in the market area of Viale Echirolles: info point and risk assessment test.
ROSTA: Wednesday 13 November from 9 am to 12.30 pm in the market area of Piazza Caduti Nassirya: info-point and risk assessment test.
RIVOLI: Friday 15 November from 9 am to 12.30 pm at the Community House in Corso Francia 98. Info Point and risk assessment test.
RIVOLI: Friday 15 November from 4pm to 6pm at the Community House in Corso Francia 98: awareness meeting on diabetes issues in collaboration with medical specialists Enrico Pergolizzi (Head of the Departmental Structure of Endocrine Diseases and Diabetology ASL To3), the diabetologist Katia Bonomo, the ophthalmologist Raphael Gallo, the dietician Monica Musolino and finally the general practitioner Elisa Camosso.
COLLEGNO: Saturday 16 November from 9 am to 12.30 pm in the market area of Piazza Torello: info-point and risk assessment test.
PINEROLO: Saturday 16 November from 9 am to 1 pm at the Le due Valli Shopping Center. Info Point and risk assessment tests. In collaboration between the Fand of Pinerolo, the Diabetology service of Pinerolo, the Lions Host, Pinerolo Acaja and Leo Club of Pinerolo.
For further information on the ASL To3 Diabetology service you can visit the website https://www.aslto3.piemonte.it/azienda/organizzazione/dipartimenti/dipartimento-medico/s-s-diabetologia/.
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November 8, 2024
